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In an interview with ET Now, Sunil Duggal , CEO, Dabur Ltd, shares his views on the Q3 results and growth targets. Excerpts: ET Now: What is your outlook on volume? How do you think it will pan out in the next couple of quarters? Sunil Duggal: Hard to say. There has been a little bit of slowdown in some of the more discretionary items. So there could be little bit of pressure on volumes, but still I am convinced that we should be able to grow volume in the trajectory of 8% to 12%. This is what I had forecast six months ago and we are on that path.

NEW DELHI: Consumer goods maker Dabur has reported a 22% rise in quarterly profits, helped by growth in its food and home and personal care businesses, and said it may curb advertising spends because of the economic environment. Net profit for the October-December quarter rose to Rs 211 crore from a year ago, the maker of Vatika hair oils and Real juices said on Tuesday. Consolidated net sales increased 12.3% to Rs 1,630.7 crore. "Margins have improved despite inflation playing truant and competitive pressures intensifying in some key categories," its chief executive officer, Sunil Duggal, said.

NEW DELHI: FMCG major Colgate-Palmolive today said work has resumed at its Goa facility following an amicable resolution between the management and the protesting workers. "An amicable resolution has been reached between the company management and the workmen, who were on strike, before the Labour Commissioner, Goa, on January 23, 2013 late evening," Colgate-Palmolive India said in a filing to the BSE. The workers have "resumed the work effective first shift of this morning", it added.

NEW DELHI: FMCG major Colgate-Palmolive India today said company management is still in discussions to resolve issues with one of the unions at Goa facility, where work has been temporarily stopped since January 6. Work at the company's toothpaste manufacturing facility in Goa has been stopped "illegally" since January 6 by some workers who are primarily protesting against suspension of a colleague, Colgate-Palmolive said in a filing...

NEW DELHI: FMCG major Colgate-Palmolive India today said work has been temporarily stopped at its toothpaste manufacturing facility in Goa by some workers primarily protesting against suspension of a colleague. "Some of the workmen at our Goa toothpaste manufacturing factory have resorted to unauthorised temporary stoppage of work, effective January 6, 2013," Colgate-Palmolive India said in a filing to BSE. They are primarily protesting against the suspension of a workman, who was suspended on disciplinary grounds, it added.

NEW DELHI: Jyothy Consumer Products Ltd today said its consolidated net loss widened to Rs 15.17 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2012. The company had posted a net loss of Rs 2.76 crore in the same period of previous fiscal, Jyothy Consumer Products said in a filing to the BSE. Net sales of the company declined to Rs 84.52 crore for the quarter ended September 30, compared to Rs 107.46 crore in the same period of 2011-12 fiscal. Jyothy Consumer Products, formerly known as Henkel India , operates in business areas of laundry, home care, cosmetics, toiletries and hair care.

MUMBAI: Global specialty chemical company Ashland on Monday said it has set up a specialities technical research and development centre in Mumbai to support producers of personal and home care products in India and southeast Asia. The state-of-the-art facility will focus on bringing new personal and home care innovations to market and providing technical support that may be required to meet consumers' rising expectations for higher-performing products in these regions, the company said in a statement.

MUMBAI: In the 1990s, a north-based biscuits company, Bakemans Industries, gave industry leaders Britannia and Parle Products sleepless nights with its aggressively-priced offerings in the Marie and Glucose segments. The regional brand with an enviable 13% share, most of it coming out of Uttar Pradesh, was going places - until it decided to go national. An attempt to carve out a pan-India presence ended in disaster with it plunging into a sea of red. To wipe out its losses, Bakemans raised prices on its home turf, in Uttar Pradesh.

NEW DELHI: FMCG firm Henkel India today said it has received shareholders' nod to rechristen itself as Jyothy Consumer Products Ltd, following merger with Jyothy Laboratories Ltd. The shareholders of the company have through postal ballot overwhelmingly passed a special resolution for changing the name of the company from Henkel India Ltd to Jyothy Consumer Products Ltd, Henkel India said in a filing to BSE. Out of...

NEW DELHI: Direct selling FMCG company Amway India today said it will set up a manufacturing facility in India at an investment of Rs 400 crore to produce nutrition and beauty brands . "We will set up a manufacturing facility at an investment of Rs 400 crore. The plant will initially produce nutrition and beauty brands. Later it can be expanded to make other products," Amway India MD and CEO William S Pinckney told reporters today. He, however, did not specify where the facility would be set up though the plant could be operational in the next two to three years.